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  1. Kinglyam
    Even disregarding MS2.0, this seems a lousy place for a charging station, unless they think they'll get a lot of apartment dwellers buying EVs without access to charging at home. I think that's a pretty tiny market still, because of how long it takes to charge. There's no viable access there for people on long trips, so who would use it?
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    Now that the elimination of traffic on the Pierce Elevated is inevitable, this might actually be considered a high-end residential property someone would want to live in again. I just wonder what condition it's in, structurally.
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    In a car-centric city, big enough to have enough parking and tables to at least pay for overhead, or at a place with a lot of drive-through traffic? Maybe it's bigger inside than I think, though, or I'm underestimating the delivery market these days.
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    Considering how packed that parking lot is with just EoS open, I can't imagine blocking it off for film viewing.
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    Sounds like with Dough Zone showing up, existing restauranteurs realized there was a cuisine opportunity they were missing. That place seems too small for a restaurant, though, unless it's a high revenue/table concept.
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    So now we get to go back on the "will it be mixed use or won't it" fretting. Anyone got contacts at HEB to see if they could be interested?
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    Supposed to have opened it up now, or soon. They said it would be "early September". I've seen vehicles go in and out, but they still had some cones semi-blocking the entrance, so I don't know if it's really officially open or not.
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    Oh, for crying out loud. Houston just keeps teasing with interesting stuff, and then throwing the most boring crap on empty lots. Another freaking storage place. Self Storage | Keeley Properties
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    We walk by that every day, nearabouts. It's been on sale or lease as long as I can remember, and recently had to get boarded up because transients were living in it. My wife often comments it would be great for grocery or something retail, but it consumes the entire property. Unless there's a variance they could get, it would never meet the city requirements for off-street parking. They have 1512 Gano across the street. Maybe they should tear down this one and use it for parking for Gano.
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    That neighborhood behind there has had stuff getting torn down nearly every month, so one or two more isn't anything new. I think parking is mostly Barnaby's. It's been a problem for a while, with parking on-street even before all the other places showed up. Those probably have made the on-street parking situation worse, driving this.
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    Does Braun have anything you can use in their stuff down around Burnett/Hardy? Heck, they already claimed the one on McKee was going to be a coffee shop, but I don't think that's confirmed.
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    Or the same place they were talking about putting the high-speed rail, Northwest Mall? That seems like a prime choice. It's not like the municipalities are particularly interested in interconnecting mass transit. The people who tend to use Greyhound aren't exactly a very politically influential demographic, either.
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    I can't believe that Near Northside can't get a freaking coffee shop. Even the pop-up at Gristworkz closed down after they got their HEB cafe running.
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    Can't tell where they are claiming those "Parking Lot 1" and "Parking Lot 2" are that are shown on the brochure. They don't mention which of their properties those are supposed to be in.
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    A lot of those residents were enticed there by the much-vaunted promises of mixed-use development in Hardy Yards. More single-family homes are definitely a disappointment, but putting high-rise residential that blocks all views for the existing residents would make the high-rise a giant middle finger to everyone already there.
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    When they announced this would be "affordable" housing, that pretty much put the kibosh on anything special. Even what we see now is conceptual, since they don't have an architect, builder, or consultant on board yet. Not even any investors. Hell, this entire thing is more hopeful than planned at this stage. It's not much farther along than the big mixed-use development we were told the entire 40 acres of Hardy Yards would be. We may well be lucky if we get even the 7,500 SF of retail they're saying here. Or even that they don't change their minds and end up putting up condos instead of single-family homes. It's not like the residents of the area have the political pull that developers do.
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    No towers, please. We've got enough out-of-place high-rises in single-family residential areas around Houston as-is. It would be nice to keep that downtown skyline at least somewhat unobstructed for the houses farther back in the neighborhood. At least, until TxDOT forces their I-10 realignment through, and the view is bisected by the raised interstate.
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    Considering how big this is, I'm surprised we haven't seen it here yet. Starting on page 17, from July, the planned layout and conceptual designs for the 10 acres left in Hardy Yards that the city is turning into housing. They've thrown a bone to the mixed-use concept, with 7,500 sf retail closest to the transit center. A central greenspace, with proposed dog park (desperately needed in the area), as well as walking trails of some sort. 201 homes proposed, with three different floor plans. housing-dept-presentation.pdf
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    So, watch this space, then? Scarlet doesn't seem to be in the land investment business, so I assume they are holding on to this with a general concept idea of "we'll do something in the future", but no specifics?
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    Looks like it's these guys. They have a rather broad portfolio of developments, but at least a parking garage isn't amongst them. Developments — Scarlet (scarletcapital.com)
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    What possible value could a parking garage bring to that area? There's hardly a demand for parking, and putting that up in a prime intersection would just reduce the need for future parking by removing valuable retail space. Hopefully it's just a parking garage under a mixed use building. More likely, multi-family residential though, because Hardy Yards.
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    Hardy Yards may have devolved into nothing but apartments, but it looks like the brewpub scene is picking up steam. This is coming to the former Texas Screw Products building at Fulton and Burnett. Are space-themed brewpubs going to be the area's thing? Taproom | Bad Astronaut Brewing Co. | Houston (badastronautbeer.com)
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    That's hardly going to stop them, though. Look at what else they've put up already. This is what is easy to build and manage, I suspect. At least the designer has experience with mixed use development.
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    I understand that they basically considered the new "upgraded" HEB experience to be sufficient, while the CM experience I guess was too expensive to develop and maintain. But since they had already developed the Houston one, adding more to it wasn't as big a deal. They just wouldn't want to spend the money to buy this land and develop an all new CM, that wouldn't be as profitable as a regular HEB. Besides, as someone earlier said, this area has poor access to the freeways compared to other locations (though not sure that is the case compared to other EMPTY large lots), which makes CM less desirable.
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    You really think anyone is going to pay full market rate to live in a neighborhood where the surrounding properties have artificially limited value increases? Realtors and assessors aren't going to ignore that when they assess the market value of the house, are they? Or will there be two different valuations, one for people making <80% AMI, and another one for everyone above that? My guess is that everyone who can afford market value will look elsewhere, and this will be entirely low-income. Frankly, I think this will be sellable to the community if and only if they build it as condos on top of one or two layers of retail. That would, I think, be very progressive and maybe even visionary (which is why it won't happen). If they build more pure residential housing, particularly with only one little kids park in the area, then nobody will mix. If, however, they have the retail that everyone wants to go to, all the different social classes will have places to mix. Which is supposed to be one of the main points behind mixed income developments, isn't it? To prevent the social stratification that comes with gentrification?
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